395 Quotes by Jack Welch

When I stop learning something new and start talking about the past versus the future, I will go.

Business success is less a function of grandiose predictions than it is a result of being able to respond rapidly to real changes as they occur.

In any bad situation you can not let yourself be a victim.

Getting the right people in the right jobs is a lot more important than developing a strategy.

Real change agents comprise less than 10% of all business people.

Getting every employee's mind into the game is a huge part of what a CEO job is all about. Taking everyone's best ideas and transferring them to others is the secret. There's nothing more important.

In difficult times your best must be hugged, loved, kissed, rewarded, paid - everything. And your worst must be the people that leave, because your best are going to take you to the next game.

There are advantages to being the chairman. One of my favorite perks was picking out an issue and doing what I called a "deep dive." It's spotting a challenge where you think you can make a difference one that looks like it would be fun and then throwing the weight of your position behind it. Some might justifiably call it "meddling." I've often done this just about everywhere in the company.

Cash is king. Get every drop of cash you can get and hold onto it.